You go to the hospital for some tests.
You lie down on the gurney-bed thingy.
The radiologist tells you the process will be longish and, once it starts, you can't move, the x-ray/camera gizmo needing to take good pictures and all.
You say, “Ok.”
He asks, “Are you comfortable?”
You answer, “Yes.”
He asks, “Are you ready?”
You answer, “Yes.”
He pushes some magic button, and leaves, and from that point on you have to lie perfectly still.
Which is when you realize that, in the process of lying down, you gave yourself a hellaciously intrusive wedgie.
This sounds suspiciously like something I would do. Or have done to me...
Posted by: Rebecca on December 11, 2009 03:18 PMOh yes, I have been there.
Posted by: Kat on December 11, 2009 03:42 PMi love you.
Posted by: Carrie on December 11, 2009 06:02 PMI think wedgies are part of most tests that require being still for any length of time.
Posted by: Elaine on December 11, 2009 07:22 PMWhat, no pictures?
Posted by: Cuzzin Tom on December 11, 2009 07:52 PMAt least you got to have your undies on!
Posted by: angie on December 11, 2009 11:11 PMAhhh, yes.... I once had to have an MRI on my knee. Once again--lie perfectly still. Of course, halfway through my nose started to itch. I tried to talk myself out of sneezing, tried to breathe. Finally my body just took over and I sneezed a sneeze that scared the hell out of the tech in the next room.
We got to do the MRI again.
Posted by: Kristen on December 12, 2009 02:36 AMAh yes - I go through this every time I have a bone scan :) Fun, ain't it?
Posted by: Robbyn on December 12, 2009 06:38 AMI'm squirming just thinking about it. I haven't been there, but I have had the ultrasounds where you need to have a full bladder and hold very very still.
Posted by: Becca on December 12, 2009 07:37 AMOh dear... As a former x-ray tech and current MRI tech, I feel for you! None of that equipment is exactly comfy, and to have a wardrobe malfunction, too, well, that's just terrible! Hopefully the exam wasn't TOO long...
Posted by: Jenny in Duluth on December 12, 2009 08:17 AMThis is about as funny as when I recently had a mammogram. It always cracks me up when the tech flattens your boob down as far as it goes, gives the machine another good crank, and says, "DON'T MOVE!". Like, where the hell am I supposed to go??
Posted by: Lorette on December 12, 2009 02:53 PMNow I know what you were doing Friday. Curious minds, you know!
Posted by: Guy on December 13, 2009 11:06 AMThat is always when my body decides that since I can't go to the bathroom, I absolutely MUST go the bathroom!
Posted by: Laurie on December 14, 2009 01:06 PMMy 10 year old thought this was the funniest thing she heard all day. ;-}
Posted by: Elizabeth Spinner on December 14, 2009 06:45 PMIt's these sorts of tests that really make me wonder if the creator ever though he might have to take it himself...
Posted by: Diana on December 15, 2009 08:05 AMsnorts
Posted by: minnie on December 18, 2009 05:54 AM